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We’re never satisfied with the 30 days of poetry National Poetry Month allots, so we’re extending it by a day. We’d like to thank all the poets who shared their work with us this year. And here to take us out is Angel Nafis.

That we might walk out into the woods together,and afterwards make toastin our sock feet, still damp from the fern’swet grasp, the spiky needles stuck to ourlegs, that’s all I wanted, the dog in the mix,

After that long loss they stumble homewith an empty locket and box of ashes,stand crying on each other in the kitchen,spill half the box into her handsand out across the unwashed countertrying to fill the one with the other.

According to the Testimony to the Grand Jury of Newport, Rhode Island by the Sailor John Cranston, After Throwing a Coromantee Woman Into the Sea, James DeWolf, the Captain of the Slave Ship Polly, Mourned the Loss of the Good Chair to Which He Had Strapped His Victim c.

Welcome to National Poetry Month 2015! For the last six years, we here at The Rumpus have run a new poem every day in April (and often into May) to celebrate this under-appreciated art form. We’ve tried to be diverse in our choices, both in terms of the poets whose work we’ve featured and in the styles (or schools, if you will) of poetry we pulled from.

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